Harrison Ford Biography

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per week. He took it and appeared right away in three very small roles. His slightly bigger role was in a thriller titled "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" (1966). This movie was also his first debut on wide screen. Never giving up, he continued to get small roles but sadly remained unnoticed and received only typical roles like cowboys or hippies. Worse, he was sacked from the program and received bad reviews from the manager. Ford was soon in desperate need of money and suddenly out of nowhere he tried carpentry to support his family's life. Amazingly, without any experience he did well and was in for jobs like building stage and sets.

Though earning enough money from being a carpenter, Ford never put off his passion for acting. While kept taking minor roles, he was introduced to George Lucas, a director who would later discover his talent. Ford joined him in "American Graffiti" (1978), a very low budgeted movie but tremendously huge in profit. For the success of the movie, George Lucas was nominated for an Oscar and was en route to Hollywood's list of promising directors. On the other hand, the movie didn't manage to lift up Ford's ...

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name. Luckily, he met another great director, Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him a chance to appear in "The Conversation" (1974) where he was able to meet great actors, such as Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall. After that, Ford was featured in a TV movie titled "Judgement: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley" (1975) but still for a very small role.

By the time it was already ten years that he did acting, but ironically he wasn't even close to being famous. He was still basically a carpenter who did a little acting. However, a twist of fate befell upon him when once again he came across George Lucas. He would say later, "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." Not wasting Ford's talent, the director immediately recruited him in his hopeful project, "Star Wars." The role Han Solo actually wasn't the first intended character for Ford, but during the reading of the script he gracefully got into the shoes of the character. Even though the movie was not exactly good, it was everybody's favorite. From the year 1977 onwards, Ford worked close to George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. ...